Episodes
Martin & Lewis
October 4, 1953
Skits: Burt plays an escaped lunatick. Songs: "Great To Be Home", "You're The Right One", "That's Amore", "There's No Tomorrow"
Jimmy Durante
October 11, 1953
Eddie Cantor
October 18, 1953
Donald O'Connor
October 25, 1953
Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis
November 1, 1953
Jimmy Durante
November 8, 1953
Martha Raye
November 15, 1953
Donald O'Connor
November 22, 1953
Eddie Cantor
November 29, 1953
Highlights include a take-off on TV westerns where all the characters speak in voice-overs and a salute to the songs of Harold Arlen.
Jimmy Durante
December 6, 1953
Perry Como and Martha Raye
December 13, 1953
Donald O'Connor
December 20, 1953
Eddie Cantor
December 27, 1953
Jimmy Durante
January 3, 1954
Martin & Lewis
January 10, 1954
Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby
January 17, 1954
Ethel Merman
January 24, 1954
Eddie Cantor
January 31, 1954
Jimmy Durante
February 7, 1954
Donald O'Connor
February 14, 1954
Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)
February 21, 1954
Gene Wesson hosts with guests Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, skater Sonja Henie, comic/singer Keefe Brasselle, with Carolyn Jones, Joyce Jameson, Michael Ross, Will J. White, Jud Conlon Singers, Norman Abbott, Glen Stangle, and announcer Hal Sawyer. Wesson and Brasselle perform dueling impressions, a sketch depicts a mob-run coffee shop, and Abbott and Costello encounter the Frankenstein Monster and the Gill Man in the Universal Studios' prop room.
ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr
February 28, 1954
Eddie Cantor
March 7, 1954
Jimmy Durante
March 14, 1954
Abbott & Costello
March 21, 1954
Eddie Cantor
April 4, 1954
Jimmy Durante
April 11, 1954
Abbott & Costello
April 18, 1954
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello welcome guests including: Jane Russell; Rhonda Fleming; A&C stalwarts Connie Haines, Bobby Barber and Mike Ross; actress Beryl Davis; actors Tony Martinez, Nestor Paiva, Frank Richards, Benny Rubin, Jim Hayward and Ken Mayer; Jack Shea; Baby Mistin; Donna Kaye; announcer Hal Sawyer; and Al Goodman and his Orchestra. In comedy highlights, the boys are flat broke in a bording house in the Latin American country of Bolamania. They rehearse a magic trick, hoping to get a job at a nightclub. Then Lou gets the great idea of impersonating the El Presidente! Also, take offs on Liberace and You Bet Your Life.
Ice Capades Special
April 25, 1954
Martin & Lewis
May 2, 1954
Jimmy Durante
May 9, 1954
Eddie Cantor
May 16, 1954
Abbott & Costello
May 23, 1954
One in this comedy/variety series with rotating hosts. The comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello star in this live episode. Highlights include the following: Bud and Lou get fired from their jobs at a department store after attempting to sell nylons; Abbott and his friends sucker Costello out of his pay, but Lou gets his revenge; Hoagy Carmichael sings and is visited by child actor Ricky Vera; Costello and Vera try to tell each other the tale of Little Red Riding Hood and crack each other up in the process; Abbott cons Costello out of his money, but Vera gets the last laugh; Peggy Lee sings "Johnny Guitar," "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered," and the "Halo Shampoo" song; Costello gets appliances with meters and has to pay a quarter every time he uses one, prompting a lot of mayhem as he attempts to try each one out; the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra plays "Midnight Sleigh Ride" and "Holiday"; and Costello attempts to dance with a woman who is almost twice his height.
Martin & Lewis
May 30, 1954
